CISCO Systems Placement Papers + Sample Papers
Cisco Systems is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco provides end-to-end networking solutions. Cisco sells its products in approximately 115 countries .Cisco is one of America’s greatest corporate success stories. Since shipping its first product in 1986, the company has grown into a global market leader that holds No. 1 or No. 2 market share in virtually every market segment in which it participates. Since becoming a public company in 1990, Cisco’s annual revenues have increased from $69 million in that year to $12.2 billion in fiscal 1999. As measured by market capitalization, Cisco is among the largest in the world.
Note : Here are some papers and interview procedure, papers on digital section, software section. some questions on aptitude.
CAUTION: There is a -ve marking of +1 & -1 u dont mark blindly.Mark the
answer if u know exactly.cutoff will be 25 marks out of 60.So becareful.
There r 2 sections in CISCO
section 1: Aptitude 20 marks (10 aptitude,10
analogy,oppositewords etc))
section 2:comp sc(data structue,c,theory of
computation,networks,operating systems)
I collected upto 20 questions;
In this setion questions exact numbers I have forgotten.So this will be
useful to the style of the problem only.
SECTION 1:
1: A man went to market with some money.With that money he can buy 15
pencils or 25 pens.He kept 15% of that money for bus fare and with rest of
the money he purchased 5 pencils,and ‘x’ pens.How many pens he purchased?
2:A man climbing a wall.For every 4 steps go up he will slipdown 2
steps.If he takes 12 min to 3 steps.how much time it takes to climb 48
meters and one step=2meters.
3: Two trains with lengths x and y ,and speeds u and v.Approaching each
other how much time it takes to takes for faster train to cross other
train?
In this question I don’t remember the x,y,u,v.U can find formula in
Aggarwal’s quantitative aptitude book
4:
there was some question on ages that was easy
Section2:
1.
main()
{ fork();
fork();
fork();
printf(“hello”);
}
How many times it will print hello?
2:
char A[5,6]
How many bytes it requires?
3:Bridges are used in which layer?
4.Bigendian means
a)lower byte stored in lower address
b)lower byte stored in higher address
one of these is correct.u can verify in Any micro processor book.
5:
#define mmx 10+10
printf”%d”,mmx*mmx);
6: main()
{ j=0
for(i=0;i<10;i++)
{
j+=i;
}
}
what is the value of i & j at the end of the loop
ans: 10,46
7: Regular expression with 2 consecutive 1’s and all string of 0’s and 1’s
8:
dead lock conditions 1 question
9:
selective repeat widow size of sender & receiver 1 question.
10;Balanced trees 1 question

